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Cartoonist Garry Trudeau's venerable Doonesbury comic strip, launched in 1970, has often featured real-life politicians and personalities as characters across the years. In 2016, one particular Doonesbury strip purportedly published in 1999 featuring Donald Trump talking about his presidential candidacy drew a good deal of attention as an example of the cartoonist's having presciently foreseen a presidential run by the real estate mogul sixteen years in advance of the real event: The strip is real and does date from 1999, but it didn't really predict Trump's 2016 candidacy. Garry Trudeau has lampooned Trump in his comic strip many times over the last three decades — so much so that in June 2016 he published a Yuge! 30 Years of Doonesbury on Trump, a book comprising nothing but Doonesbury strips featuring the Donald Trump character. The 1999 wasn't remarkably predictive for positing Trump as a political candidate back in 1999, however, because the business magnate has been flirting with politics since the 1980s. In October 1999 Trump announced that he was forming a presidential exploratory committee for the 2000 election, and the strip displayed above was published a few weeks after that announcement, on 14 November 1999. The original strip featured four additional panels: However, Wikipedia notes some other instances of Doonesbury's forward-looking use of political figures:
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